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It is often said that it is important to practice a foreign language and that if you move to an environment where you are forced to use it, you will inevitably learn to speak it.

Examples of changes in the old Indonesian script are Soeharto (oe changed to u), Jogjakarta (j changed to y, Tjinta (tj changed to c) Moesjawarah (sj changed to sy), Djakarta (Dj changed to j) and Njonja (Nj changed to Ny).

Passive is used only in the third (S+V+O), fourth (S+V+O+O), and fifth (S+V+O+O) sentences of the five basic sentence forms of English grammar with an object.

If the antecedent happens to be a place, time, reason, or method, it's a relational adverb, otherwise it's called a relational pronoun, and a preposition + relational pronoun is replaced by a relational adverb.

In Indonesian presentations, daring to pronounce it slowly to pause and think about the next line of dialogue is useful for conjunctions such as dan kemudian and maupun and prepositional phrases with secara and dengan.

Indonesian prefixes include pe, which makes a noun, and me, which makes a verb; if the initials are (P disappear, B) then pem(mem), if (S disappear) then peny(meny), if (T disappear, C, D, J) then pen(men), otherwise it is peng(meng) or the original pe(me).

There are three things to watch out for in order to make Indonesian look formal: prefixing verbs, writing passively with emphasis on the object, and accenting with prepositional phrases and conjunctions.